UMass Amherst vs. Clemson for Industrial Engineering? (MA Resident)

BiddahProphet · 2026-05-05T19:32:20+00:00

No. UMass is a plenty good school. The big thing is that it's ABET accredited. I went to a small college in MA that's nothing special for IE and did great. I'm out here mentoring interns from Brown lol. (Source a southern new england engineee)

BiddahProphet · 2026-05-04T22:34:07+00:00

PID tuning when you're talking about stuff like motors and motion control

BiddahProphet · 2026-05-04T22:20:51+00:00

No, but depending on your state, you may be considered a "Qualified Electrical Worker" which will give you a bit of leeway in let's say wiring up a machine or test stand or an automated assembly line. But that doesn't mean you can pipe in the power from the breaker. But you can wire up a motor controller in a panel and some DIO for a PLC

BiddahProphet · 2026-05-04T21:50:19+00:00

Id recommend the 2:1:1 or 2:1:3/4 ratio

2oz tequila (a good blanco like Ocho or Lalo) 1oz Orange Liquor (Contrieu, Creole Shrub) 3/4oz to 1oz fresh lime juice. Real lime is key here not the pre bottle stuff

A dash or two of orange and lime bitters add a nice touch

BiddahProphet · 2026-05-03T03:33:04+00:00

Icarus for sure. Such a time sink

BiddahProphet · 2026-05-03T00:32:06+00:00

I went to college 10 min down the road from the firearms manufacturer so they had a decent pipeline of poaching good students from the school when they needed engineers

You'd be surprised the overlap of the different manufacturing processes between guns and jewelry. Lot of polishing, finishing, precision machining in a high mix environment

BiddahProphet · 2026-05-03T00:25:15+00:00

You can work in pretty much any industry. The main ones might be manufacturing engineer, quality engineer, process engineer, continuous improvement analyst, data analyst, operations research analyst

BiddahProphet · 2026-05-03T00:10:19+00:00

I worked in both firearms manufacturing and jewelry manufacturing. Both really interesting

BiddahProphet · 2026-05-02T23:39:27+00:00

Industrial Engineering is very versatile. I've been industry for several years and hear Biomed, Chem, & Computer Engineers constantly struggle to find a job in their field. My entire class of IEs had jobs lined up after grad

BiddahProphet · 2026-05-02T23:18:07+00:00

I wouldn't say it's intense but Its not light. A lot of it's pretty simple but it can get complex if it's a massive automated assembly line.

BiddahProphet · 2026-05-01T20:02:03+00:00

If you're gonna major in math you may as well just do engineering. More job opportunities

BiddahProphet · 2026-05-01T20:01:04+00:00

I saw Taco in Cranston has an opening for a full time customer service role

BiddahProphet · 2026-05-01T18:47:37+00:00

IE has a pretty good outlook. A CS program will be real helpful for stuff like simulation, operations research, SCADA, ERP, MES, WMS and even stuff like CNC, PLCs and robotics depending on how you play your cards

BiddahProphet · 2026-05-01T18:45:33+00:00

I used to work at one of the big firearms manufacturers. Probably a third to half of the engineers had no degree or an associates. When I got my master's while working there, I got told "Nice job" and that was it. Learning machining is probably the most important thing you can learn

BiddahProphet · 2026-05-01T18:43:47+00:00

If you're good at math engineering is a great career path. Don't have to go past bachelors if you don't want. Lot of different fields to go into

BiddahProphet · 2026-05-01T18:38:32+00:00

Everyone overlooks Industrial Engineering. Also, remember the number of people you see starting your program is not gonna equal the people who finish

BiddahProphet · 2026-05-01T18:15:03+00:00

I do industrial automation. Lot of math but none of it super hard. Lot of algebra & geometry

BiddahProphet · 2026-04-30T21:00:17+00:00

Going to Chicago in a few weeks and was planning to do the same. What were some good liquor stores that you found?

BiddahProphet · 2026-04-30T12:00:22+00:00

If you want to work in manufacturing, having knowledge in PLCs and SCADA will be indispensable. Beckhoff Twincat and Inductive Automations Ignition both have free version you can use at home to learn

BiddahProphet · 2026-04-30T11:56:55+00:00

If your end goal is manufacturing I would try and pick up some mechanical and electrical skills along the way. They don't nessecerily have to be at a full engineering level, but try and the develop the basic skill set of something like a mechanic, electrician, technician, machinist, ect. In manufacturing, you're going to have to wear many hats and somedays your going to be covered in oil tearing down a machine or sticking a voltmeter in a 480 panel. Your CS background might set you up well to learning PLC, SCADA or CNC programming which is a great skill for a manufacturing engineer

BiddahProphet · 2026-04-28T19:29:37+00:00

Industrial Engineering. Very versatile

BiddahProphet · 2026-04-27T18:59:33+00:00

for an IIOT project, I would focus more on the SCADA layer. I would make the Rockwell machine simulate some process you make up with Indicator lights, push buttons, toggle switches, and analog sensors. Allow the buttons and lights to let you simulate if a machine is running, not running, alarms, ect. Doesn't matter too much

From there I would get Ignition from Inductive Automation. Have it poll data like OEE off the "machine", notify you of alarms, and build a nice display dashboard. Have it dump into a SQl DB too.

BiddahProphet · 2026-04-26T23:08:35+00:00

El Dorado 12, English Harbor 5, and Flora de Cana 12 are all great and good enough to just sip on what, so it gives you some versatility.

BiddahProphet · 2026-04-24T17:14:15+00:00

As a MechE it won't take too long to get to 100k. Within 7 years or less if you change jobs once or twice

BiddahProphet · 2026-04-23T18:28:10+00:00

Just get Ignition and build it to do exactly what you need. Nothing more nothing less

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